cogitations on technology and learning

Category: Academisation

At the weekend we opened up to public view our internal Multi-Academy Trust database on our site here. A number of people have asked why we did this, and a number have asked how. So here goes. We provide online tools to MATs so we need to know who our customers are likely to be.… Read More WYSIWYG

So, today this letter dropped from the Education & Skills Funding Agency. It’s a bit of a boring one about budgeting and finance so won’t tend to get much attention. It should. The key section is this one: Let’s first of all consider the import of the final sentence. “We anticipate that in most cases… Read More The mythical bean bag

Last March in this post I set out some of the statistics relating to academies and how they were arranging themselves. As the DfE have just published an updated list of Academies I thought it would be useful to try and see what has changed in the past year and a half. Note that some… Read More Re-joining the dots

First off, it’s important that this isn’t seen as an attack on anyone. It’s not meant to be. Whilst you have to take this on trust you should understand that the figures I present below actually came out different to my original expectations. So what was originally produced in order to show “meh”, actually turns… Read More There are more questions than answers

Readers of this blog may well have realised that I am not of the view that academies and multi-academy trusts are the root of all evil. My take is that where wrong-doing has been done in a trust this is down to the people within it. I can see that this may be seen as a… Read More A failure of trust

Ok, lets do the caveats first. There are clearly some issues that would warrant further investigation with respect to admissions. In my view social selection is the most pernicious form of selection given that it usually involves making either parents or children feel unworthy. So that needs to be looked at. There are also some… Read More Cui bono

In March I looked at the Academies and Free Schools data release and produced some analysis of the numbers in this post. Today the DfE released a further update so I thought six months later I’d have a look to see what had changed. In summary, and to save you from having a look at… Read More In the foothills